It wasn’t too long ago that talking to a computer and having it not only understand, but speak back, was confined to the realm of science fiction, like that of the shipboard computers of Star Trek.

Teaching computers to make sense of human language has long been a goal of computer scientists. The natural language that people use when speaking to each other is complex and deeply dependent upon ...

Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most important frontiers in software. The basic idea—how to consume and generate human language effectively—has been an ongoing effort since the dawn of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Making wealth creation easy, accessible and transparent. Natural language processing (NLP) is a subset of artificial intelligence ...

Natural language processing, or NLP for short, is best described as “AI for speech and text.” The magic behind voice commands, speech and text translation, sentiment analysis, text summarization, and ...